"Your Highness, why are you here at Northwest Bay?"
When he saw Irene again, Mond Landon still had a look of disbelief on his face. He once thought that what happened when he left Lord's Manor was his hallucination.
How could the dignified Auldo Kingdom little Princess be in such a remote place, and... and... seems to be working under the local lord.
Hearing Mond's words, Irene pouted in dissatisfaction. "Why is your highness not your highness? Senior, I have told you so many times that you just need to call me by my name. But... you have to call me Betty here."
"Uh... Okay, Betty." Mond called her current name awkwardly.
Irene explained to him why he was here, "I was forced to come here!"
"Forced?" What could force a princess to run away from home?
Irene immediately became furious, put his hands on his hips and said in a very unladylike manner, "That old man Rhodesney XVII wants to marry his little daughter to Eastern Border Duke!"
"Uh...His Majesty the King He actually..."
It turned out that he ran away from home and rebelled against the marriage arranged by the king.
Mond was extremely surprised. He had never heard of it when he was at the Gabella Empire. It seemed that the news had been blocked.
There was more sympathy in his eyes when he looked at Irene. When they were studying together, although their statuses were different, Mond always regarded this lively and lovely little princess as her younger sister.
well! For girls born in the Royal Family, their marriages will be more or less political.
This school girl of mine is really brave, Mond secretly admired her in her heart.
Having said that, has Aldo Royal Family been forced to do this? Thinking of this, Mond felt guilty and asked, "Can you tell me the specific situation?"
"Well, I'm just looking for someone I know to talk to!"
So Irene also sat down and told in detail how he and the guard Liya escaped from Royal Capital, how they went all the way north, and finally were in danger in the woods and were rescued by Paul Greiman.
Perhaps because he felt too embarrassed, Irene didn't say that he originally planned to go to the Gabella Empire, but ended up coming to Northwest Bay in a daze due to being a roadie.
Mond heard that the female guard named Liya was accompanying Irene. He breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Looking at the situation at the Lord's Manor today, Earl Greiman still doesn't know your true identity, right?"
"Well, my pseudonym is Betty Diaz, and I will live here as a scholar."
"I see... Then you... seem to be working in the Lord's Manor?"
"Yes, you have also seen that Lord's Manor was recruiting talents when I came, so I applied for the job. I was a consultant at first, and then Earl Greiman appointed me to be in charge of education."
"Education? I didn't expect this young lord to value this so much?"
"Yes! This is one of the things I appreciate about him. In the north, and even in the entire Aldo, there are not many lords who realize the significance of this aspect."
"Haha, Ai... cough! Betty, it's not that they don't realize it, but... it's not a good thing for ordinary people to know too much."
"Okay! Stop it!" Irene pushed forward with both hands. "I have no interest in the so-called [art of domination]. Let me tell you, the six schools that have been established by my hands are, of course, very elementary. My ultimate goal is to make everyone in this land literate."
When he said the next words, Irene's face was full of pride.
"That's a difficult task!" Mond said, but he was shaking his head secretly in his heart. What on earth was that lord thinking? Could it be that the little princess was so fooling around that she was dazzled by Irene's beauty? "By the way, is the teacher in good health? How did Senior Mond come here?"
"Mentor is in good health! I am here to take away a child who was recognized by Mentor a long time ago. Haha, you will have an additional junior student soon."
A look of surprise appeared on Irene's face. "Teacher has been here too? What a lucky child. What is his name and which village is he from? I already know the place names here very well."
Mond then introduced him to Kevin and how he was almost exiled to Northern Forest to reclaim wasteland.
"He is indeed a lucky child," Irene sighed again, "If it had been a little later, maybe the senior would have had to go to the big forest to the north to kill him."
Irene asked again, "So... cousin, is he okay?"
"Crown Prince... How should I put it? Our eastern neighbors have become restless again. His Highness has led the army to deal with them."
Irene was surprised and worried, and asked nervously, "Ah? Cousin, isn't he in danger?"
Mond said with a smile, "Haha, just relax, let alone Gabella's army is extremely powerful, just relying on His Highness's talent alone, nothing will happen."
"Alas..." Irene was still a little worried, "Damn wars, why are they everywhere. There is a war in the south, a war in the north, and a war in the east."
Mond suddenly thought of something and asked, "Are you safe here? I heard that Earl Greiman and several other lords seem to be at war with the current Northwest Duke?"
"It's safe!" Irene said confidently. As a senior executive of Government Affairs Council, she naturally knows the strength of the Alarda Army, and it is definitely more than enough to protect herself in this land in the northwest.
Mond reminded him, "In short, reveal your true identity when necessary."
"I will."
"Irene..." Mond whispered the little princess's real name with a look of shame on her face.
Seeing the other party like this, Irene was very confused. "What's wrong, senior?"
Mond said hesitantly, "If despicable means are used for a noble goal, what do you think?"
Why did the senior ask such a question out of nowhere?
However, Irene quickly replied, "From an outsider's perspective, this self-heating is a heroic act."
Mond's eyes lit up. "Oh? So you agree?"
"Not entirely. If it were someone who was on the inside, especially a victim of so-called [despicable means], then I would probably be full of hatred."
Mond's face quickly became dull.
"Irene, you may encounter some helpless things in the future, and you can only choose the least bad method from those bad methods."
He could only explain it this way, but these words made Irene more and more confused.
"Senior, what's wrong with you? You suddenly started talking about this."
"I... oh~ forget it."
Irene didn't know how to explain Mond's words, so he had to cover it up softly.